Development of Perception in Infancy: The Cradle of Knowledge Revisited

Martha E. Arterberry is Professor of Psychology at Colby College, Maine. She received her BA from Pomona College and her PhD from the University of Minnesota. She previously was Professor of Psychology at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, and she is a collaborative investigator at the Child and Family Research Section of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Arterberry currently serves as a consulting editor for Developmental Psychology, and she is a co-author of Development in Infancy: A Contemporary Introduction, Fifth Edition (2013). Her research interests in perceptual and cognitive development include the study of depth perception, three-dimensional object perception, categorization, and memory.

Philip J. Kellman is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his BS from Georgetown University, and his MA and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He has received numerous awards including the Boyd R. McCandless Young Scientist Award from the American Psychological Association, the William Chase Memorial Award from Carnegie-Mellon University, and the rank of Professor Step VI, University of California (Step VI is a special rank conferred in the US system "upon evidence of great distinction, recognized nationally or internationally, in scholarly or creative achievement"). His research interests include object perception, perceptual learning, and the intersection between perception and cognition to develop and optimize computer-based learning technology.